Top 57 Gelett Burgess Quotes

#1. Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.

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#2. Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

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#3. The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"

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#4. Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

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#5. Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.

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#6. Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.

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#7. Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason

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#8. Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.

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#9. A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.

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#10. Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

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#11. To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.

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#12. Seek one woman whom thou canst trust, and to her who lovest thee best, tell thy secrets. She will deliver thee from the hands of strange women, she will expose their craft; and of her who flattereth thee, will she make known the reason.

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#13. The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

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#14. Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it.

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#15. A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

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#16. A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy.

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#17. If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead

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#18. Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

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#19. My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.

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#20. Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

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#21. Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.

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#22. I never saw a purple cow;
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.

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#23. Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.

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#24. Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

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#25. Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.

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#26. It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.

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#27. As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.

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#28. A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero

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#29. Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

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#30. Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also.

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#31. To take the world as one finds it

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#32. Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

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#33. A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

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#34. Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.

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#35. A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

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#36. The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

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#37. If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.

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#38. Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

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#39. To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

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#40. Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

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#41. If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

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#42. Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.

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#43. As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

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#44. Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

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#45. My feet, they haul me Round the House, They hoist me up the Stairs; I only have to steer them, and They Ride me Everywheres.

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#46. There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

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#47. There are no roads in all Bohemia !

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#48. In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

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#49. I have made believe so long that now I am quite sincere in my conviction that we can see pretty much whatever we look for; which should prove the desirability of searching for amusement and profit rather than for boredom and disillusion.

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#50. Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.

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#51. When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

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#52. Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

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#53. The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.

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#54. No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

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#55. Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire thy hands. Though thou wert even as the orangutan yet shall she paint thee with fancies.

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#56. It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.

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#57. There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

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